Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said. This means that having strong social ...

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The findings suggest that the instinct to help others in distress could be deeply rooted in mammalian evolution, challenging long-standing ideas about altruism in the animal kingdom. Researchers ...

Evolutionary biologists and animal behaviorists have sought to identify the mechanisms that can explain what some have called the “problem of altruism.” Natural selection operates against ...

This discovery suggests that the instinct to help may be more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously thought. Altruism, often considered a typically human characteristic, may in fact have ...

Reciprocal altruism occurs where the roles of the donor and recipient are later reversed. This often occurs in social animals. For example, vampire bats feed only on blood. An individual cannot ...

Doing for others--altruism--is arguably one of the most human of our activities. Arguable too are the origins of altruism: biology, psychology, culture, all of the above? Researchers have been ...